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Sparda helped Mundus become the Demon King, that infers some serious power over every other demon below them. And he was imprisoned by Drekavacs because he let himself be imprisoned. Did you ignore what I said up there? Sparda hid his children and then let himself be captured to draw the focus away from them.

But Sparda didn't do a whole lot in the classics, he freed humans and sealed off the demon world. Everything else is really just mentioning how cool he is, in helping the guardians of the island in DMC2, and the people of Fortuna in DMC4. Everything else is just based on the generic "dude(s) want to open portal to Hell, Dante stops them," formula. The Legend of Sparda is really nothing more than those two great exploits; leading the humans to freedom, and sealing the demon world.

At least in DmC Sparda still has the benefit to being alive somewhere, and Dante and Vergil made demons visible to the public in the end. There's a lot of places they could potentially go with all that, but the classics try to revolve around Sparda like he's so important, when he stopped being important the moment his sons were born, despite consistently trying to make it seem like Sparda is still the most important one.

And I didn't say that DMC3 didn't explore Dante and Vergil as characters, just that throughout the entire series they are consistently downplayed in favor of their father's legacy. People are only after them because their father's legacy in one way or another. Dante and Vergil both had characterization, but the only people to ever address them on their own merits were Dante and Vergil. We've got the supporting ladies, too, but even most of them were all about them for being Sons of Sparda, like Lucia, and Trish being made specifically as a tool to screw over Dante, before she gets all compassionate. Lady was the only one exempt from that :/ Very few of the characters in the classic series get away without referring to Dante and/or Vergil as Sons of Sparda, or mentioning their father in some capacity, as if their dead father is ever so more important than them.

"Sure, he's stupidly powerful, but his actions set up a stage that the protagonist gets to explore and unravel the mystery of." Except nothing is ever done about it. Sparda is consistently brought up in all of these predicaments, and yet we gleam so little out of it. Sparda does all this stuff before the games to set things up to be done in the games, but then we never really get anything out of it other than "Oh yeah, Sparda did this cool thing too," with little elaboration, no real exporation or mystery unraveling. It's just a product of the poor-ish storytelling the series is known for. They have great ideas, but usually somewhat poor presentation if it isn't about Dante surfing on a missile or doing something else cool.

The reason Mundus attacks is because they are Nephilim - his actual parentage isn't as important. They are one last piece to his perfect plan of ruling the world with deceit and subterfuge that he needed to take care of. Dante and Vergil at at the forefront for being

"Dante's imrpobably quick leap to not giving a damn to suddenly wanting to be the champion of humanity?" Did you play the game? The entire story was about him coming to terms with who he was, and realizing that humans were important. He starts out not caring, then wants revenge on Mundus, and then slowly learns that he isn't the only one who so badly affected by the demons' rule. His sympathy for humanity grows quite a lot. He even truthfully explains to Mundus that he's fighting for humanity's freedom, and then has to make it more personal. While Dante's motive for revenge is still there, that doesn't mean he can't fulfill it if he's also fighting for humanity's sake - hell, that's right in line with Classic Dante, who decided to go around killing demons for humanity while hoping to "hit the jackpot" someday and kill the demons responsible for his mother's murder. And Vergil's motivation wasn't just revenge either, it was to take out the demon king, and then move himself in to the position of ruler. Everything Vergil did was basically orchestrated to try and make him look like a savior who the humans would be happy to have rule over them, while also fulfilling whatever plans or vengeance he had.

Kat isn't a love interest (it was stated by the devs she wasn't), and Dante never developed a crush on her, I have no clue where you'd get that idea. And he spent quite a bit of time with her, and learned a lot about her, too. They were friends, and Kat was important to her because of that. Kat was part of what helped Dante to see that humanity was suffering just as much as he was. And seriously? Vergil suddenly didn't care about Kat? I guess we just imagined the whole leaving Kat behind to blow up or get captured, his unwillingness to risk his and Dante's lives for her rescue, and then subsequently taking the opportunity to kill Lilith with little regard to Kat's safety. Even Vergil hanging out in the computer room shows how little he cares for Kat or other humans, when he could have easily been defending them - he cared more about data (protected by both modern security measures and magical barriers) than he did the humans who worked for him. How does the inclusion of all that in the story make his "not caring about humanity" so sudden...? And the fact that Vergil doesn't care enough about humanity explains why he worked with Kat for years and didn't get "attached" to her like Dante did.

A lot of your claims give me the impression that you hated DmC from the get-go, and looked at everything in a very subjective light :/